13 Reasons Why Season 4 Review: 7 Ups & 6 Downs

4. The Show Has Lost Sight Of What It Once Was

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If someone had told you as you watched Hannah Baker's story unfold that, by its fourth season, 13 Reasons Why would have devolved into a ridiculously over-the-top crime thriller with unreliable narrators and convoluted narratives that tend to dance outside the realm of believability, you probably wouldn't have believed them. But alas, here we are.

The show has always been flawed, but the first season at least attempted to handle its storyline with some degree of sensititivity. Now, it's like a less-campy Riverdale with plot developments of the convenient or illogical kind that occasionally challenge even it.

Much like we saw in Season 3, if you allow yourself to get over that transition, you might end up enjoying it for what it is, but the show's quick evolution is certainly a strange one.

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